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Capacity building

Training designed with an office for the skills its employees need.

Training and technical assistance for BARMM officials and employees are among DAB's functions under the Bangsamoro Administrative Code. DAB's specialized training is fitted to the skills an office's team needs.

What the Help Covers

Trainings DAB has designed for offices' teams.

  • Completed staff work

    DAB's most requested training, run for ministries, offices of members of the Parliament and other offices.

  • Values and moral governance

    Values Transformation Training, often with the Bangsamoro Development Agency, and seminar-workshops on moral governance.

  • Writing and speaking

    Technical writing, effective communication, public speaking and minute taking.

  • Office practice

    5S in the workplace, project management, records and archives management, inventory systems, and cash management and internal control.

  • Working with people

    Customer service, facilitation skills, stress and conflict management, and developing effective work teams.

  • Ethics and safe workplaces

    Seminars on the code of conduct for public officials (RA 6713) and on the Safe Spaces Act.

DAB's Past Work

Some of the trainings and courses DAB has built with other offices.

  • Madrasah administrators, November 2023

    The 2nd Leadership and Management Training for Madrasah Administrators, with the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education's Directorate General for Madaris Education, in three batches across BARMM's schools divisions from 13 to 30 November 2023. DAB's sessions covered moral governance, crisis management and cultural competence.

  • School of Peace and Democracy-Bangsamoro, 2023

    DAB's Center of Education and Extension gave technical assistance to the Peace, Security and Reconciliation Office and UNDP on this short-term course for former MILF combatants. Its first graduation, on 29 June 2023, had 174 graduates.

  • SGADA, January 2024

    SGADA Community Resilience workshop for employees of the Special Geographic Area Development Authority, 31 January to 2 February 2024, General Santos City, with UNDP, through the Center of Education and Extension.

  • Early warning and early response, April 2024

    A two-day workshop for 45 women mediators, 7 and 8 April 2024, Cotabato City, with UNDP and supported by the Government of Canada.

  • MTIT RAPID Growth Project, August 2025

    Data Analysis and Technical Report Writing Workshop and Knowledge Management Capabilities Training, 4 to 6 August 2025, Davao City.

  • SK Mandatory Training, September 2023

    DAB sat on the technical working group with the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government and the Bangsamoro Youth Commission that finalised the modules, 6 and 7 September 2023, Davao City.

How to Ask

  1. Step 1: Write to DAB

    Tell DAB what skills your team needs, using the contact form.

  2. Step 2: Hear back by email

    DAB's team replies by email and suggests where to start.

  3. Step 3: Train your team

    DAB runs the training for your staff. Its trainings for offices have mostly been face to face, over one to three days.

Talk to DAB about your office's needs

Tell DAB what your office needs help with in capacity building, and its team will reply by email.